STEP: New State Program Aims for Transportation Equity, Community Building
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Cap-and-trade program will fund grants to build community capacity to plan and address local accessibility needs to help lower greenhouse gas emissions
Revised Crenshaw Housing Project Still Has Affordability Concerns
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Is a project meant to serve as the gateway to a historic Black corridor reserving enough space for the people that make it so special?
Advocates Yee-Haw Over New SFMTA Leader
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Advocates happy to see one of their own taking over at SFMTA
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- My fight with a sidewalk robot (CityLab)
- Interview with new SFMTA director (Curbed)
- More companies, including Tesla, join with CA in lawsuit against EPA (Inside EVs)
- The climate war over cars intensifies (Axios)
- NTSB blames Arizona Uber crash on driver, Uber, victim, state, and feds (Verge, Post-Gazette)
- Another reason EVs won’t be the climate answer: lithium extraction (Technology Review)
- Why public transit is an equity battleground (CityLab)
- People are being evicted statewide before new renter protection law takes effect (CalMatters)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Advocates Pause to Remember Toll of Traffic Violence
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Individuals pay dearly for "levels of service"/prioritizing car throughput over life and limb
Joe Biden Doesn’t Go Far Enough on Transit
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Please wake us when the Democratic 2020 candidates get serious about transit in the 21st century.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- City of Sacramento to begin enforcement of scooter, e-bike rules (Sacramento City Express)
- L.A. Metro’s Traffic Reduction Program: more transit, safe biking and walking, congestion pricing (Mass Transit)
- Another take on Richmond Bridge bike path (Bike Lab)
- E-cargo bikes could help cut congestion (CBC)
- Racism dictates who gets dumped on: Environmental injustice (The Guardian)
- Time for SUV shaming? (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- CA won’t buy cars from GM, Toyota, manufacturers that won’t implement emissions standards (ZME Science)
- The rise, and fall, of the car (The Guardian)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Santa Monica Extends Pioneering E-Scooter Pilot Program
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Santa Monica is planning to modify its shared micro-mobility pilot in 2020. The initial year has yielded plenty of data on how e-scooters are working
Commentary: Super Commuting and the Last-Mile Conundrum
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Improving transit and last-mile connections are essential, but care must be taken in how they're funded
Op-Ed: Hey, Reporters, Stop Blaming Crashes on the Victims
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A new academic paper argues that a shift away from the victim-blaming of most news coverage of traffic crashes involving pedestrians could improve the lackluster policy debate around vehicle violence.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- CA sues Trump over auto emissions authority (LA Times, Transport Topics)
- Sierra Club finds car deals are not on board with selling EVs (Autoblog)
- Self-driving cars will lead to more driving, full stop (Jalopnik)
- Richmond Bridge bike path opens (Bay City News, SF Chronicle)
- A day to remember victims of traffic violence (NBC)
- Oil and gas company emissions are rising, despite cap-and-trade (ProPublica)
- Police plan “crackdown for bike/ped safety” in San Diego. Which behaviors will they target? (Fox)
- San Francisco plans to install a LOT more bike parking (SF Examiner)
- Feinstein and DeSaulnier say another bridge across SF Bay for cars would “relieve congestion.” Sigh. (SF Chronicle)
- That explosion last month in Crocket? It was really bad (SF Chronicle)
- Oakland police say they are dealing with their racial bias by pulling over fewer people (SF Chronicle)
- Context and words, like not calling a car crash an “accident,” matter. A lot (Forbes)
- Edward Norton’s new film has delights for city planning nerds (Curbed)
- Jobs you can do on a bike (Autoblog)
- Venice is drowning: It’s a glimpse of the future (Washington Post)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF